Higher Education Tuition and Costs

Recruiting U.S. Students to a Canadian University Queens University in Kingston, Ontario is engaged in creating an academic plan. Several months ago a faculty team was asked by the Principal of the university to submit a comprehensive set of recommendations. The team did that on August 23 in a document titled “Imagining the Future: Toward an Academic […]

Reshaping the Future in Higher Education: Walking New Paths Since my February entry highlighing “traumatic change” in higher education, I’ve continued collecting news items about the changes underway as the reshaping of higher education continues. As you might guess, nasty items appear far more often than good news. This post, in honor of the recent […]

Middlebury College: CPI + 1% = revolutionary tuition increase policy Middlebury College is a remarkable place. And the president, Ronald Liebowitz, is a remarkable president. I’ve never been to Middlebury and I’ve never met the president. (Although I did select the Middlebury website as a Link of the Week pick back on April 24 2009 for “frank talk on […]

What’s the state of higher education in the United States? “Traumatic change” might be the best two words to describe what’s taking place right now and will continue to take place in the immediate future as available resources continue to shrink and schools from Yale University to San Francisco Community College adapt to meet the […]

Private sector higher education: shrinking over the next 10 years? In the proverbial interests of full disclosure, I am an Alfred University alumnus, have never attended a reunion event, and have been a very occasional donor. That last category was just frequent enough to keep me on the “alumni and friends” list of people who receive regular updates […]

Tuition Discounting Increasing in the Private Sector of Higher Education Getting information about college and university tuition discount rates is as challenging as finding the Holy Grail. Tuition discount rate (the amount a school has to reduce the “sticker price” to enroll students) is an important indicator of strength in the market place, for everyone from University […]

Reed College, Tuition Discounting, and the Future of Private Colleges & Universities Reed College is controlling the tutition discount rate by increasing enrollment of new freshmen who can afford a $50K per-year cost without an increased college contribution. NACUBO last released a tution discount report in May 2009, based on a survey for discount rates for the […]

Illinois Legislature Voting on Bachelor’s Degrees at Community Colleges After my May 8 blog entry about myopia in Arizona re options to lower the cost of higher education, there is news from the Chicago Tribune that Illinois has the chance to do the right thing and allow a community college to offer bachelor’s degrees for the […]

Arizona Searching for Lower Cost College Degrees This qualifies as a rant. The Arizona Republic is today reporting on how the Board of Regents in that state is trying to figure out how to provide lower cost bachelor’s degrees to students by offering them in some way other than through the state’s 3 research universities. “Everything is on […]

Tuition and Costs… More on Middlebury College Not long after sending today’s email to newsletter subscribers with Link of the Week selection of Middlebury College for the clear and forthright presentation of information about how the college was reacting to the financial crisis, came two emails adding new information that’s worth repeating here. The first email was […]

In late December, I wrote about two private sector schools that had already announced no tuition increases for 2009… Benedictine University and Merrimack College. Today, we have four more to add to the list: Wheeling Jesuit University Sierra Nevada College Lake Erie College Yeshiva University Far from a stampede for sure, but this is still early in […]

Every since I visited my first online financial aid/scholarship calculator at the University of Toledo 3 or 4 years ago, this service has been gradually expanding at more schools. This latest addition to my blog list turned up in conversation during a presentation at ACT’s annual Ohio conference in Columbus on Wednesday. Visit the “Financial […]